The two bomb blasts near the Boston Marathon’s finish line last April were the most significant acts of terrorism on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001. Other contemporary terror attacks claimed more lives than the three lost in Boston (the shooting by Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood in 2009 killed
Whenever Tia Clifford and her five college housemates catch one another getting worked up—dwelling on the past or stressing about the future—they quote the mantra of a Catholic sister on campus, abbreviated and turned into a Twitter hashtag, “#BWYFA!”The acronym, which they p
I have a hard time believing that the political paralysis is in anybody’s real interest.
Intersex RealityRe “When the Law Is a Crime” (Editorial, 3/10): In Jesus Christ there is no male or female (sexism), no Greek or Jew (ethnocentrism or religious sectarianism), no slave or free (classism) because all are one in Jesus Christ.There are countless species of life on earth in
5,000 deaths, $6 trillion. But there's still another cost to U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
More people now die in the United States by suicide than in automobile accidents There were 28 364 deaths by suicide in 2010 the most recent year for which data are available and according to the U S Centers for Disease Control the rate is rising particularly among middle-aged adults Jennife